Wednesday 25th january. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. President trump has promised a significant day ahead on National Security, including an announcement about his plans for a wall on the Mexican Border. He tweeted big day planned on National Security tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall building a 2,000 mile wall along the Mexican Border was one of trumps key election promises. Hes said the wall would cost 8 billion and will be up to a0 feet high. The new president is also expected to approve Immigration Restrictions on seven mostly muslim countries in the middle east and africa iraq, iran, libya, somalia, sudan, syria, and yemen. And trump wants to make all us cities co operate to deport Illegal Immigrants a move aimed at so called Sanctuary Cities like san francisco, where local police do not help with most deportations. Our washington correspondent david willis has more. Were going to have our borders nice and strong. Were going to build a wall. Were going to
Women are experiencing widespread discrimination when it comes to dress codes at work, say mps. Good afternoon. The top story, President Trump is expected to reveal details later today of how he will fulfil a Major Campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border of america and make the mexicans pay for it. Today he signalled it was important for national security. He is expected to sign several orders aimed at restricting immigration. He has already launched an investigation into voter fraud looking at Illegal Immigrants who were not eligible to vote. Lets have a closer look at the border between the us and mexico. There it is crossing an entire continent and joining the Gulf Of Mexico with the pacific ocean. It passes along four us states and six mexican ones and a wide range of geographical hurdles so any new wall would be a feat of engineering. And heres what it looks like close up. The us border with mexico spans 1,989 miles a Central Plank of President Trumps Election C
Of his record nine gold medals through no fault of his own. And coming up in the sport on bbc news, Serena Williams says britainsjohanna konta can be a future grand slam champion, after knocking her out in this good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Theres been a sharp increase in the number of Homeless People with more than half the councils in england recording a rise. On a single night last year more than 4,000 people were Sleeping Rough thats according to the government figures. It amounts to a 16 jump on the year before campaigners say its an appalling rate. 0ur Midlands Correspondent sima kotecha reports now from birmingham one of the areas with the largest number of Homeless People. As the darkness creeps in, the wind chill begins to bite. Those who have nowhere to go look for shelter. Volunteers roam the streets, making sure nobody has died because of the cold. One of those workers is paul aitken. The young man there, im just checking that he is breathing and he is ok
Areas will generate interest from your questions and most of the questions are about Executive Orders, what the president s can use them for, if there are any checks, can they sign of funding or of Congress Needs to get involved. We have been looking at the questions on Executive Orders, anthony will join us in about 15 minutes and we can work through a lot of these issues. We must turn to some other really significant developments. Let us really significant developments. Let us do that. Bit by bit. There are reports that mr trump might intend to lift a ban on cia black site prisons, secret prisons or non us territory used for interrogations and well president George W Bush was in power. The New York Times says there is a Draft Executive Order that would roll back a series of restrictions that barack obama set on the treatment of detainees other media has this draft order, too. But lets take note of this the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says this document isnt from the white
Areas will generate interest from your questions and most of the questions are about Executive Orders, what the president s can use them for, if there are any checks, can they sign of funding or of Congress Needs to get involved. We have been looking at the questions on Executive Orders, anthony will join us in about 15 minutes and we can work through a lot of these issues. We must turn to some other really significant developments. Let us really significant developments. Let us do that. Bit by bit. There are reports that mr trump might intend to lift a ban on cia black site prisons, secret prisons or non us territory used for interrogations and well president George W Bush was in power. The New York Times says there is a Draft Executive Order that would roll back a series of restrictions that barack obama set on the treatment of detainees other media has this draft order, too. But lets take note of this the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer says this document isnt from the white